Some homes and families are destined to be together. Long before they purchased the 4,300-square-foot historical Machinist House on Union Street in Manchester, Kathy and Bill Gillett were drawn to the place. "I always loved the house, before it ever…

Ambassador John Milton Hay's opinion of Washington, D.C., was summarized quite succinctly when he explained to his close friend Theodore Roosevelt that "[t]his wordy city poisons men, who might be friends, against each other." All the more obvious then, why…